Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 10:03:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object Message-ID: <199805311003.DAA20637@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <l0313030bb195de7042c4@[208.2.87.10]> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at May 30, 98 04:15:40 pm
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> >It also means that one "ports" CDROM will work for FreeBSD 3.x and > >FreeBSD 235.x. > > How can you make this claim? The individual ports may well rely on some feature > of FreeBSD 235.x that was not present in FreeBSD 3.x. Similarly, a port > for 3.x may rely on a feature that was removed before 5.0. > > As much as we might like to think otherwise, assumptions about the structure > of the underlying OS and "hardcoded" into the source of the program. :-( The point is to make a port for FreeBSD 3.x work on FreeBSD 235.x, not the reverse. In other words, "compile once, run anywhere". The binary compatability from FreeBSD 3.x to FreeBSD 235.x is a problem for the XANDF processor during the install. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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